1. Rocks and
Minerals
Inside
the
Earth
The
Changing
Earth
Landforms Jumble
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2. What is the mantle made of?
• Crust
• Basalt
• Soil
• Fire

3. What does
the word sedimentary mean?
• ‘to sit’
• ‘to dance’
• ‘to settle’
• ‘to relax’

4. How is metamorphic rock
made?
• Mud+heat=lime stone
• Heat+pressure=change
• Change+rock=pressure
• Dance+walk=rock

5. Where can you find
fossils?
• Fossils are only found in Africa
• Fossils are in sedimentary rock
• Fossils are found in the mantle

6. Which of these statements
is true?
• Minerals can be made up of different rocks.
• Minerals are only one color.
• Rocks can be made of different minerals.
• Rocks and minerals are made of igneous rocks.

7. Which of these rocks
comes from a volcano?
•Metamorphic
•Sedimentary
•Igneous

8. What is the first layer in the earth
• Inner core
• Mantle
• Outer core
• crust

9. The crust is about______miles
thick?
• 100
• 30
• 1000
• 3000

10. The Mantle is_____miles thick
•800
•2,000
•1,700
•500

11. What is the
Earth mostly made of?
• Organic materials
• Water
• Rocks and minerals
• continents

12. About how hot
is the inner
core?
• 1,000 degrees F
• 15,000 degrees F
• 9,000 degrees F
• 100,000 degrees F

13. Where do earthquakes
happen?
• North America
• Everywhere
• South America
• Europe

14. What causes an Earthquake?
• A mountain falls down
• Tectonic plates move
• A volcano explodes
• A new island is formed

15. When wind blows, it:
• Slowly wears rock away
• Chips big chunks of rock away
• Cracks rocks
• Split rocks apart

16. In the process of
weathering, plant
roots:
•Wear rocks away
•Blow rock apart
•Crack rocks
•Chip away rock

17. What happens during the
process of erosion?
• Land splits apart
• Soil or rock is moved
• Earthquakes are made
• Mountains grow taller

18. What is an ocean ?
• A hole with water in it
• A big body of salt water
• A small body of water
• A strip of water

19. Which of these landforms is not
formed by water?
• Canyon
• Mountain
• Delta
• River

20. How are volcanoes created?
• Falling meteors
• Dirt and grass catch on fire
• Magma escapes from the mantle
• Sand and hot water mix

21. What makes an island?
• An underwater volcano erupts
• A bunch of sand with trees
• A large rock collects plants
• A mountain gets flooded

22. How do mountains form?
• Ancient civilizations built them.
• Two tectonic plates collide and push up
• Rivers erode softer soil from all around.
• A volcano is filled in with rocks and
minerals.

23. Which of these would usually
not be found in soil?
• Plastic
• Rock
• Dead plants
• Twigs

24. How many continents are
there?
• 8
• 5
• 7
• 11

25. What is a delta?
• A hole in the earth
• A very high hill
• A triangular pile of dirt at the mouth of a
river
• A large pile of sand in the desert

26. If you drilled though the Earth,
in what order would you go
though the layers ?
• inner core, mantle, Crust
• Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
• Inner core, outer core, mantle
• Crust, inner core, mantle, outer core

27. How long ago did Pangea
exist?
• 220 million years
• 1000 years
• 100,000,000 years
• 500,000 years